The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC), established in 2002, is at the National Advanced Fire and Resource Institute (NAFRI) in Tucson, Arizona. The LLC is primarily a Web-based educational and knowledge resource center that serves the entire wildland fire community. The LLC provides tools and tactics to the wildland fire community to ensure safety and effectiveness in all field operations. The center is supported by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG), which includes multiple federal, state, and local land management and firefighting agencies. Mission statement "Our mission is to promote learning in the wildland fire service by providing useful and relevant products and services that help to reveal the complexity and risk in the wildland fire environment". Establishment The need for a wildland fire lessons learned center became apparent with the TriData Wildland Firefighter Safety Awareness Study, initiated after 14 wildland firefighters died in Colorado's 1994 South Canyon Fire. TriData recommended that one center be set up for all of the nation's wild land firefighters. Consequently, the interagency Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center was created to focus on striving to improve safe work performance and organizational learning for all wildland firefighters. The LLC is operated by a full-time staff located in Tucson, Arizona as well as off-site employees in the Pacific Northwest. The Center also employs several key contractors and consultants who assist in many of the LLC's major projects and operations. The LLC collaborates with several different groups throughout the country, including: NAFRI, NWCG, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), and Federal Fire and Aviation Safety Team (FFAST). The wildland fire community is a widespread group that contains many federal, state and local agencies. While these groups have been collecting data and learning from past incidents for years, they have never consolidated this information into a central location—until the creation of the LLC. Operations The LLC uses a variety of methods to disseminate knowledge and encourage networking within the wildland fire community. These methods include: educational videos, conferences, case studies, workshops, interviews, presentations, seminars and Webinars, newsletters, online publications, as well as several other Web-based tools, which can be accessed via the LLC's main Web page: Lessons Learned Center. The LLC's Web page houses a library of information and includes everything from educational videos to an incident review database. This main Web page also connects to several subpages based on topics that range